Distressed Gekuh 5 is a light, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game ui, posters, album covers, eerie, witchy, handmade, spiky, chaotic, horror mood, handmade texture, occult theme, dramatic display, scratchy, ragged, thorny, jagged, angular.
A scratch-built display face with thin, high-contrast strokes and aggressively irregular contours. Stems and curves are repeatedly broken by thorn-like barbs, nicks, and tapered flicks, creating a jittery outline that feels drawn with a dry brush or scratched nib. The forms are mostly upright with a loose, uneven rhythm; widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, and round letters show lopsided, frayed terminals rather than smooth bowls. Counters remain generally open, but interior edges are roughened, giving many characters a slightly vibrating silhouette.
This font suits display applications where a distressed, spooky voice is desired—headlines for horror or Halloween materials, game or film titling, album art, and short callouts on posters or packaging. It can also work for thematic UI labels or chapter headers when used at larger sizes to preserve the jagged detailing.
The overall tone is tense and uncanny, suggesting dark folklore and handmade horror aesthetics. Its spiky interruptions and nervous linework read as ominous and ritualistic rather than playful, lending a supernatural, unsettling mood to short bursts of text.
The design appears intended to mimic hastily scratched lettering with thorny, torn edges—prioritizing atmosphere and texture over smooth regularity. Its variable letter widths and uneven stroke behavior suggest a deliberate handcrafted, haunted aesthetic meant to feel rough, organic, and slightly unstable.
In the sample text, the distressed texture is persistent across letters and numerals, so the face reads best when allowed generous size and spacing; at smaller sizes the barbed details can visually merge and add noise. Capitals are especially dramatic and angular, while lowercase keeps a narrow, wiry posture that reinforces the scratchy texture.